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...decision of a group of protestors??which included several Harvard students—to stage a “sleep-out” in support of climate-change legislation last Monday evening in Boston Common might strike observers as odd. Yet while setting up tents in the very tame wilderness of central Boston is peculiar, the cause the demonstrators supported is not. The students, through their transient tent city, intended to call attention to climate change and show support for introducing a bill that would require Massachusetts to be powered with 100-percent renewable energy...
...Harvard should let us participate in this historical moment to the fullest extent,” Kyle de Beausset '08-'09, a Crimson editorial writer and frequent student-activist who is leading these efforts, wrote alongside his online signature on the petition. One Facebook group member likened the protestors?? struggle to a fortune cookie she’d found on the ground outside the Harvard Science Center, which read, “[W]hen spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.” An inspiring rallying call for these poor, disenfranchised Harvard students. Their main...
...activism group, and Rainforest Action Network, a national organization—addressed a range of issues, from climate crisis to sub-prime mortgages, and the Wall Street bailout to the Iraq War. Ananda L. Tan, a member of RAN and the spokesperson for the event, said the protestors?? goal was to “build awareness that large banks are endangering the public, predominantly poor communities and communities of color, with their reckless financial behavior.” According to pamphlets distributed by RAN at the protest, Bank of America’s recent claims...
...According to CPD Spokesman Frank T. Pasquarello, about 100 protestors??including undergraduates—gathered in front of the Holyoke Center before moving into Mass. Ave, last afternoon, where they proceeded to block traffic...
...protestors?? letter also asks the College to consider granting the Special Concentrations and Folklore and Mythology programs official departmental status, “to prevent circumstances such as these from arising again...